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Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support

1 hodina 32 min zpět
Niri 26.04 is out today as the latest feature update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...

Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora

4 hodiny 38 min zpět
Microsoft's in-house Azure Linux operating system used within Azure and for WSL and other purposes is reportedly pursuing an overhaul where it would be derived from Fedora Linux...

Linux 7.1 Brings Audio Support For The Line6 POD HD PRO & NexiGo N930W Webcam

5 hodin 1 min zpět
Following last week's Linux 7.1 sound subsystem feature pull that added bus keeper support in working toward better Apple Silicon support along with a variety of other new audio hardware support, a secondary set of sound updates were merged as we approach the end of the Linux 7.1 merge window...

New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1

7 hodin 5 min zpět
With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software...

Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week

7 hodin 23 min zpět
After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday...

LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1

7 hodin 37 min zpět
Merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.1 merge window are a number of enhancements to the LoongArch architecture support for that Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V...

Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements

7 hodin 48 min zpět
Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...

KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency

8 hodin 5 min zpět
KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...

Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal

24. Duben 2026 - 19:49
Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...

GCC Establishes Working Group To Decide On AI/LLM Policy

24. Duben 2026 - 18:17
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has a working group established by their steering committee to study the use of AI and large language models (LLMs) within the context of GCC compiler development...

Fwupd 2.1.2 Brings Support For Firmware Updates On More Hardware

24. Duben 2026 - 16:12
Fwupd 2.1.2 is out today as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that allows for updating system firmware and device/peripheral firmware under Linux...

Linux 7.1 Is Performing Well Overall In Early Benchmarks

24. Duben 2026 - 15:43
With the Linux 7.1 merge window winding down ahead of the planned Linux 7.1-rc1 release on Sunday, I have begun testing out the Linux 7.1 Git state on various systems in my lab. So far Linux 7.1 appears to be looking good in the performance department with seeing a number of performance improvements in different areas but also a few possible regressions.

Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1

24. Duben 2026 - 15:00
As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1...

AMD SBI Driver Preps For EPYC Venice With Linux 7.1

24. Duben 2026 - 14:43
The Linux kernel continues getting ready for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors...

Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers For Long Obsolete Input Hardware: Bye Bus Mouse Support

24. Duben 2026 - 14:22
Beyond Linux looking to remove old drivers due to the surge of AI/LLM bug reports, the Linux 7.1 kernel is also removing some old hardware drivers simply on the basis of long obsolete hardware. The input subsystem saw several drivers removed this week for decades old hardware...

Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23

24. Duben 2026 - 11:23
Merged recently to the latest LLVM/Clang compiler development tree is the Arm C1-Ultra scheduling model for helping with delivering optimal binaries for that flagship next-gen Arm mobile CPU...

Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise

24. Duben 2026 - 11:08
It was just days ago we reported on a proposal to drop old network drivers due to AI-driven bug reports becoming a burden on upstream kernel developers. Last night that culminated with an initial pull request to clear out some old, unused networking drivers plus also clearing out the entire ISDN subsystem and more...

HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs

24. Duben 2026 - 1:16
While the AMDGPU open-source driver has struggled with HDMI 2.1 support due to the HDMI Forum blocking open-source implementations, HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) as a feature of the HDMI 2.1 specification is enjoying success now with the open-source Nouveau graphics driver on Linux for NVIDIA GPUs...

Opera GX Browser Gets Flatpak'ed & Snap'ed On Linux

23. Duben 2026 - 22:22
Last month Opera released the Opera GX gaming-focused web browser for Linux. It rolled out in RPM and Debian package format support while now for those interested is also available via Flatpak and Snap sandboxed app formats...

Linux 7.1 Removes Some Obsolete PCMCIA Drivers That Likely Haven't Been Used In Years

23. Duben 2026 - 21:18
In addition to some network drivers on the chopping block due to AI bug reports for obsolete hardware/drivers and Linux 7.1 dropping various drivers for Russia's Baikal CPUs, the Linux 7.1 kernel as of today also dropped some obsolete PCMCIA host controller drivers...